People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) requested documents related to experiments the school performed on animals, including veterinary records of animals used in painful and deadly burn experiments, pain and irritable bowel syndrome experiments and training exercises, according to a news release from PETA.

UTMB claimed various legal exemptions as reasons for withholding the documents, PETA said.

The attorney general ruled the exemptions are inapplicable and that UTMB must make the information available to PETA, the news release said.

UTMB spokesman Raul Reyes said the university plans to proceed according to the provisions of the Texas Public Information Act.